Current Issue: Future Posts

I'm going to be annoying here and make a fuss over future posts since I'm seeing two issues and both are fairly big. Both have been reported via Feedback recently:

1 - If one creates a future post via importing with the WordPress XML importer or the Movable Type importer, then it doesn't show up in the blog at all. For example, this post never came up until I edited it and republished it again. Recently, I've been doing it for most of the Posts within that blog since they're timed to go up at midnight and 1pm US eastern time.

Minor note for that one. The post does show up in the Scheduled Posts list as being due. The time listed though increases as we get further away from the schedule post time though.

2 - If you do manually republish a post, then it shows up early in the tag system. Please note the post labeled "the Front yard" with a date of "-1 years ago."

my second post published as scheduled. i dont see any problem with it.

the trick is that it's not being published as the timezone i have set in options, but the 'default' timezone, which is 8 hours later than mine. so my post gets published 8am my time even though in the timestamp i have edited it to appear at midnight.

I just scheduled a post using the trick...we'll see if it works. It's scheduled to go live at 5 a.m. Central Daylight Time (US), but I set it for 10 a.m., since I'm also five hours off GMT. We'll see if it works -- I get up at 5:30 a.m. to go to the gym, and that's usually when I manually post, so I'll log on and see if it works.

OK -- here's my report on the matter. I got up this morning, and the post was hanging out in my list of upcoming posts, showing it as being scheduled for four hours from now (which would be 10 a.m. my time). So, it wasn't up, and I had to go ahead and edit the time again and just get it posted so I can get out of here and go to the gym and to work.

I'll do some experimentation for tomorrow morning, though, and just treat the time as I was normally (setting the future post to the appropriate time in my time zone, rather than factoring in UTC stuff), and I'll see if it works.

And if I'm not explaining this properly, pardon me...there's been no coffee intake yet!

I tried a slightly differnt angle. I used BlogDesk and uploaded my posts for 1 and 2 1/2 hours from now. When I click on manage they are showing in my line-up of posts. I'll update you on what happens.

On Saturday, I put posts in place for the next five days (Sunday-Thursday). So far, Sunday's post didn't go up at all until I went back in and republished, and the post today went up on time as scheduled. It's so very inconsistent, which is also, I'm sure, why it's impossible for the WordPress gurus to solve the problem.

Although I will say this...I find the not-automatically-publishing far superior to the other problem I've experienced, which is when the post publishes out to the site (and to all RSS feed-readers) immediately, but shows the future post date/time that I set, even though that date hasn't arrived yet. I'd much rather have the thing just languishing in the system -- I can solve that by going back in and publishing, even if that's a little bit of a pain.

I only tried this last night, and three posts should have gone up by now. None did, so I put (two of) them out manually. The third one said "due in 8 hours" when I signed on and now says "due in 10 hours".